Yeah. Some people take religion literally, which when you start to get into what these books say, becomes ridiculous.
An intelligent individual starts to make one rationalisation, and one allowance after the next for the statements made. Soon they are following one portion of the book, and not another, then picking one set of conflicting "rules" to follow over another. The person ends up with their own interpretation of what is contained in those books, or the interpretation taught to them through the teachings of their favourite religious leader. It gets to be quite ridiculous, and is what I believe causes objective and rational thinkers to leave religions entirely, or at least not practice them to the letter. There are far too many contradictions and downright obscene and degrading "rules" contained in these "holy" books. This is especially true of those rules and philosophies which target women. On 2 January 2013 11:09, Marlon Moyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > I agree with you J, this culture of relative moralism is really pitiful. > I mean, crap, why should the government have any say in what I do to my > wife or kids. I mean, really, if the good book says I can kill my child if > they misbehave, well, damn....why should I listen to anyone else about it? > ..and why in the heck can't I sell my daughters any more to be maid > servants? Give me one good reason? > > And what about those fornicators too? Why in the hell haven't we been > stoning Petraeus along with all his low moral brethren....especially all > those people who are "divorced". They're the worst! I guess they didn't > get the whole "What God has put together, let no man put asunder" meaning. > > And WTF don't all of our Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom vets all have > Iraqi child brides? We should have slain all the men and all the women > who'd had sex and then distributed the female children amongst our troops. > Oh, and we should have killed all the Iraqi male children too! Can't have > them growing up to exact vengeance on us. > > And what about all these rich people worrying about saving their tax > money? Don't they realize they ain't getting to heaven if they're rich. > > oh and speaking of rich people. We need to put to death every one of the > NFL players. They've been flaunting their work on the Sabbath every week > by broadcasting on it Television. The Sabbath is for rest and the Bible > commands us to put to death anyone who's dumb enough to work on that day. > > Not only are they working on the Sabbath, but have you seen some of the > tattoos on those heathens? The good book is pretty darn clear about > marking up your body and it ain't gonna be pretty when they face Him. > > We've become a society that's too worried about people's rights. As long > as a man has rights, that's all that's needed. Heck, women aren't even > supposed to teach men so why should we be giving them votes or God forbid, > a place on the pulpit! Women are to be in subjection to us so how can they > possibly be equals!? Likewise, children are property and last I checked, > property doesn't have rights. > > The biggest tragedy here is that poor boy was obviously being controlled > by the devil! Evil had taken over his body and was doing things to him > that his immortal soul would have never done by itself. I only hope that > his last thoughts on this Earth were of repentance and sincere belief in > the big man upstairs. If they were, I'm sure he's in heaven playing with > those same little angels he sent there only moments earlier, 'cause God > will forgive all our sins no matter how big or small as long as we repent! > > Now, you'll have to excuse me. I've got to get out to protest in front of > the Pappadeaux's restaurant. I noticed today on their sign that the are > having a special on Lobster. Can you freakin' believe it? Lobster. > They're just inviting the lightning of God's wrath to rain down on them. > I'm going to protest from across the street, just in case He does. > > > Upon seeing this, I thought about how far morality has fallen in or > > country. I wondered if the country could fall any further into > > depravity. > > > Some pundits keep preaching the demise of the USA. With the rise of > moral > > relativism, no personal accountability, and the culture of blame, that is > > prevalent in the US, they may be right. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359390 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
